SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION ACT 1994 - SECT 20 Availability of statutory rules

SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION ACT 1994 - SECT 20

    (1)     The Government Printer must make every effort to ensure that a copy of a statutory rule can be purchased on demand by any member of the public during normal office hours from a prescribed bookshop.

    (2)     The responsible Minister must ensure that a copy of a statutory rule—

        (a)     is available for inspection by any member of the public without charge during normal office hours at the office of the Department of the responsible Minister; or

        (b)     can be inspected without charge or purchased on demand by any member of the public during normal office hours at a public office specified by the responsible Minister by a notice published in the Government Gazette.

    (3)     In addition to and without limiting section 16, despite the coming into operation of a statutory rule or of a provision of a statutory rule, a person cannot—

        (a)     be convicted of an offence against the statutory rule or provision; or

        (b)     be prejudicially affected or made subject to any liability by the statutory rule or provision—

if it is proved that at the relevant time a copy of the statutory rule could neither be purchased or inspected as provided by subsections (1) and (2).

    (4)     In this section "copy of a statutory rule" means a copy of—

        (a)     a statutory rule printed in accordance with section 17 or, if a reprint of the statutory rule has been prepared in accordance with section 18, the reprint; and

        (b)     any subsequent statutory rule which amends that statutory rule.

Pt 5 (Heading) amended by No. 78/2010 s. 33.

Part 5—Scrutiny, suspension and disallowance of statutory rules